The California Legislature returned to Sacramento on Monday from its month-long summer recess, resuming bill negotiations, committee hearings, and floor deliberations. Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees face an August 30 deadline to hear and report fiscal bills to their respective floors. Appropriations Committees are expected to hold suspense file hearings the last week of August…
Read More »The California Legislature is set to return to Sacramento from its month-long summer recess on Monday and will face a busy month ahead as it rounds out the first year of the 2019-20 Legislative Session. Upon the Legislature’s return, Senate and Assembly fiscal committees will have until August 30 to hear and report all fiscal…
Read More »The California Legislature this week undertook an extremely busy schedule, featuring several committee hearings that stretched many hours and the advancement of a number of high-profile measures. Wednesday was the deadline for policy committees to hear and report fiscal measures to fiscal committees, and today was the deadline for policy committees to hear and report…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom finalized a sweeping $26 billion wildfire liability measure aimed at protecting wildfire victims, creating additional safety and oversight processes for public utilities, and holding public utility companies accountable for safety of their infrastructure systems. After extensive negotiations between the Legislature, Administration, and relevant utility and wildfire…
Read More »Facing deadlines for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard and reported to the floor by policy committees in the second house next week, the California Legislature held a series of hearings this week, each often stretching several hours. Lawmakers continued working in earnest to finalize negotiations and amendments for fiscal bills to be advanced…
Read More »The California Legislature this week continued with a steady pace of bill negotiations and amendments and policy committee hearings, facing a looming deadline in two weeks for fiscal and non-fiscal bills to be heard in second house policy committees. Facing an abbreviated timeline next week due to the Independence Day holiday, policy committee hearing agendas…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature maintained a steady pace of committee hearings, bill negotiations, and amendments. Agendas for committee hearings over the next several weeks are becoming quite lengthy as legislators approach the next round of deadlines in early July prior to their month-long summer recess set to begin on July 12. Below, we highlight…
Read More »This week, the California Legislature held a number of policy committee hearings on bills in their second house. In what is shaping up to be a very busy month ahead, the Assembly and Senate continued setting bills for hearings in their policy committees ahead of the July 10 deadline for fiscal bills and July 12…
Read More »This week, Assembly and Senate policy committees once again began holding hearings on measures advanced out of their house of origin in compliance with the May 31 deadline. The Legislature has just over one month before facing additional deadlines for policy committees to hear and report fiscal bills to fiscal committees (July 10) and non-fiscal…
Read More »Today marks the deadline for the California Legislature to pass bills out of their house of origin. Both the Senate and Assembly this week were in floor sessions only, maintaining a steady pace of floor debate and votes each day. Measures passed out of their house of origin will now be considered through the committee…
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